Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [is] " in BNC.

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1 If the seller does not fulfil this task , the buyer 's right to cancel is extended indefinitely or until he takes action that can be construed as accepting the agreement .
2 ‘ For people to suggest that to intern is to bring people on to the streets casts doubts on the integrity of the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland .
3 People who suggest that to intern is to bring the community on to the streets cast doubt on the integrity of the vast majority in Northern Ireland .
4 Well you perhaps wo n't believe me but I sit where Geoff is and she gets right against me and there 's all this to spare is n't there granddad ?
5 What 's interesting to know is , what is the maximum value that that can attain ?
6 What I 'm not prepared to accept is that he 's entitled to lead a charmed life while others struggle and falter and fail .
7 I can illustrate County councils a dot blank here in eighty four eighty five an election year for county councils I E Essex County Council dot dot dot eighty nine an election year dot dot dot and ninety three you 'll all be er happy and delirious to know is a county council election year so next May Thursday county council elections will be held .
8 The question nobody seems able or willing to answer is when the ground attack may come .
9 the elements for the powerboaters this weekend are water and wind … as the British Grand Prix returns after a two year gap … it 's being raced in cardiff and favourite to win is Steve Kerton of Gloucestershire … he 's lying second in the world championship … he 's going for the win but is happy to be back racing in britain
10 the elements for the powerboaters this weekend are water and wind … as the British Grand Prix returns after a two year gap … it 's being raced in cardiff and favourite to win is Steve Kerton of Gloucestershire … he 's lying second in the world championship … he 's going for the win but is happy to be back racing in britain
11 What is easier to handle is information — and management information which is planned and delivered in predetermined packages should be particularly straightforward .
12 Triumphing against all odds and losing when it seems easier to win is one of Scotland 's most endearing faults .
13 ‘ Although the sales force is relatively small ’ , Harris said , ‘ one of the things that Adams has been careful to do is to focus the activity so that it would actually compete with the majors in its field of respiratory medicine ’ .
14 Usually the most that governments have been prepared to do is to publicise their activities and/or to seek voluntary undertakings .
15 ‘ What I 'm not prepared to do is commit myself to the club beyond that , until such time as a final plan , which I understand from the chairman was agreed in principle by all directors on Saturday night , has been formally ratified by all board members .
16 No thank you very much , Miss you are free to leave is you wish
17 It 's a bit easier to read is n't it ?
18 dial one is is actually easier to read is n't it ?
19 But how much deeper in content and how much easier to understand is the observation that infinitely many such problems can be dealt with all at once , as it were , by replacing numerical coefficients by literal coefficients of no initial specific numerical value .
20 Another way in which the icons are now easier to understand is because you can now include separators in the SmartIcon palette in order to group icons together .
21 Slightly less willing to react is a chassis afflicted by over-light steering that lacks feel .
22 Whether we think the high price P M charged by a monopolist is a rip-off or the just reflection of what consumers are prepared to pay is a pure value judgement about equity .
23 There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy .
24 Any sexual activity which allows this to happen is unsafe .
25 One reason why this principle in its most general form was not thought to provide the foundation of a general doctrine of consent and voluntary obligations is the widespread belief that ‘ causing ’ another to act is , at least in the matter of individual responsibility , unlike causing a natural event .
26 Genetic experimentation remains the most popular theory , but though Hopkins has plenty of wild stories about artificial insemination , or half-breed alien/human babies already in existence ( all strictly off the record of course ) all he 's prepared to say is that things are coming out into the open .
27 It may be that to choose is to distort so protean an entity .
28 Surely now just months before the Cornmill is due to open is the time to ensure the town 's assets such as easy town centre car parking are in good working order .
29 A possible short term reduction of microalbuminuria due to hydrochlorothiazide 's hypotensive effect may have been progressively counterbalanced by the effective renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system stimulation provoked by the same drug .
30 Less easy to implement is the suggested ‘ coaching ’ in social skills , in which the poorly accepted child has specific instruction on how to interact with peers in a positive way .
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